Cooool.

Custom drugs.

That is entirely too much information.

I have "published" my DNA many a time.

Hey, didn't Clinton publish his DNA?

Good for Venter! He's been trying to bust the strangle-hold of the ivory tower academics and governments when it comes to the genome.

This moves it closer to the independent academic scientists, and ultimately the private sector, where it can become useful to mankind.

And before any of you Lefty losers go berzerk on the private sector -- licensing intellectual property to private companies is the best way to make technology useful. It also generates licensing fees for the scientist and his university.

The explosion of new medicines, electronics, materials, etc., in the last two decades came because the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 created this approach.

Interesting the amount of variances and mutations in human DNA, given we're all from the same parents 6000 or so years ago.

In light of this and the myriad of rabbit holes it will undoubtedly open the doors to, the scifi novel I'm writing in my head right about now opens with the following phone call:

Hello?
Order desk, please...yes, I wait.
(musak)
Hello? Yes...I would like to order an A-003 Deluxe Rachel Spector model, please. Out of stock and back ordered? How long? Six months? That's unfortunate. Then how about a comparably-equipped Alizee Jacotey? Six weeks? That will be fine. No, shipping won't be necessary. I'll pick it up at the factory. Thank you. Have a nice day.
(click)

In other news, Vernon's genetic code was also published. Surprisingly, it took only a single sheet of paper, double-spaced. Not surprisingly, it was identical to that of a prehistoric mollusk.

(Just teasing, Vernon. Don't get your panties in a bunch - at your age, a small rise in blood pressure can be deadly.)

I've read in several sources that this guy Craig Ventner is a real asshole and an egomaniac. No surprise it is his genetic code he chose to map.

Excellent. Now I can hack into his brain.

Inquiring minds just have to know, Is he now subject to the ultimate identity theft?

Northguy3 has issues.